Improvement in wire fences



I KNAPP.

WIRE FENCE.

No. 43,032 .Patented Jima 7i", 1864.l

UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

isAAe KNAPP, oF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE FENCES.

Specilieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,032. dated June 7,1864.

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, ISAAC KNAIP, of the village ot' Medina, in the county ot' Orleans and State ot' New York, have invented or produced a new and useful Improvement in Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the sazne.

At suitable distances I have what I term permanent posts, either rmly set into the ground or otherwise strongly and substan- `by the wires of the fence, the said wires being attached to the posts and attlxed thereto,

in in and drawn at suitable distances apart ai d rising one above the other on a line parallel with the ground along and upon which the fence is being constructed. The saidcleats or strips of wood or other material, when attached as aforesaid, are to extend a suticient distance below the lowest wire in the fence, so that there can be attached thereto a-bottom or base board, which is to forni a portion of the fence and to be axed to said cleats only.

What I cla-im as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The perpendicular cleats suspended to the wires of the fence with the base-board at tached. thereto, which will at all times keep the wires of the fence at a suitable tension b v rising and falling with the contraction and expansion ot' the wires as they are affected by the weather. V

G. N. WILKINSON, AENA BOWEN. 

